Here at the USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive we have thousands of hours of stock footage available for licensing. This comes not only from the over 80 years worth of student films, educational films but from many different collections shot specifically to be used as stock footage or for documentaries that were never produced. Below you will find a growing collection of downloadable clips you can test out to see if the footage is right for your project. If you don’t see what you are looking for please feel free to contact us at filmrequest@cinema.usc.edu and we will be happy to discuss rates and deliverables with you. More civil rights footage can be found on the L.A. Newsreel page HERE
1972 Anti-War Rally
Call Number i085843
Anti-War Rally in 1972 with speakers Bobby Seale from the Black Panthers, Dalton Trumbo, and John T Williams.
1977 KKK and African Americans Clash in Mobile , AL
Call Number i101245
A march on September 24, 1977 by the KKK protesting the new Work Release Program. They ultimately clash with African American Citizens. Of note are some of the signs held by KKK members in support of the young DA Charles Graddick who remained powerful in Alabama politics until 2020.
STOCK-0009 – KKK ; Cops Hose ; Carolina
Call Number i085742
1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; ceremony on airport tarmac ; Ku Klux Klan members march down street in full white robes ; KKK rally in streets ; North Carolina ; South Carolina ; white supremacists ; white hoods ; people watch as klansmen clansmen pass by ; men and women ; city street ; children ; confederate rebel flag on robe ; walkie talkie ; Heil Hitler arm motion ; Abbots restaurant ; African American people walk down street ; sit in demonstration ; people clapping ; police attack protesters ; drag man ; push ; police brutality ; fire fighters spray demonstrators protesters with fire hose ; race riot ; violence ; fire men ; police dog ; sign: It’s for freedom that we march ; civil rights ; we demand equal rights and freedom ; black protesters for equal rights
STOCK-0007 Race Relations ; Rebel Flag ; Negro People Need Homes Sign
Call Number i085740
1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; negro people need homes ; Marquette Park Chicago ; I Want You Uncle Sam poster ; black man fills out form on the street ; Workers Wanted Pick Lemons sign in store window ; State of California Department of Employment office ; CA ; c/u on sign ; interior employment office ; people wait in line ; Merchants of Labor book cover ; advertisement for farm workers ; trash covered street ; snow and garbage ; foot pokes dead rat ; baby drinks from two bottles ; African American boy looks at camera ; poverty ; poor home ; city street ; open door ; apartment walk up ; funeral for many soldiers held on the tarmac ; soldiers load casket draped in American flag into plane ; soldiers carry coffins ; military funeral ; medals of honor ; army medals ; soldier pins decorations to casket ; flowers brought in ; l/s ceremony ; protest ; picket ; demonstration ; peace and equal housing ; protesters march in a circle holding signs ; Marquette Park sign ; cars of teenagers with confederate rebel flags drive through ; sign with the “N word” ; white supremacists ; racism ; sit-in ; officer holds white boy
STOCK-0002 – Race Riots ; MLK Speech
Call Number i085735
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; exterior church ; crowd gathered ; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walks through crowd to podium ; gives speech ; African American group assembled ; leader arranges people into a line ; black children above crowd ; boy claps his hands ; girl chews gum ; people marching down the street holding hands ; civil rights demonstration ; man waves stake in the air ; yells at camera ; reporter ; passionate speech ; angry ; man hold up his hands ; bloody man ; head wound ; body on the ground ; 8th Ave and 131 St street signs ; up angle ; black men loading into police vehicle ; man arrested , brought into station ; interview with white man ; police chief ?
STOCK-0006 – Riot Montgomery, Alabama
Call Number i085739
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; race riots ; demonstrations ; equality ; b&w ; crowd of people huddled together ; black and white ; black man yells at police officers ; officer tries to shut off camera ; angry ; police cars ; shaky camera ; black man arrested ; African Americans marching in the street ; Selma to Montgomery Alabama ; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ; MLK ; civil rights leaders ; police in gas masks ; marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge ; protesters vs. police ; man on the ground ; officers on horseback ; violence breaks out ; police brutality ; bodies
STOCK-0003 – Race Riots
Call Number i085736
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; racism ; white men fighting in a parking lot ; demonstration ; protest ; people walking with signs outside Dixie mart ; grocery store ; violence ; man jostles camera ; fight ; white men beat each other up ; policeman ; officers take witness accounts ; police officer fights with black child ; African American family arrested ; loaded into truck ; police vehicle ; patrol car ; brutality
STOCK-0004 Ku Klux Klan Rally
Call Number i085737
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; polling station ; place ; African American people voting ; voters ; check in ; black people standing in line ; c/u feet in line ; shoes ; hands filling out form ; pan lines of people waiting ; April 27, 1964 ; KKK ; Ku Klux Klan members marching in full white robes ; hoods ; Confederate flags ; costumes ; clansmen ; klansmen ; racism ; police officer on a motorcycle ; walking to rally ; people gathered to watch march ; white supremacists
STOCK-0005 KKK, Hell’s Angels, Highway Patrol
Call Number i085738
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; civil rights ; racism ; white supremacists ; hand opens Highway Patrol car door ; police officer in driver’s seat ; car ; shooting range ; rifle ; officer in uniform shoots targets ; shooting practice ; African Americans walk in a line ; Abbots Restaurant ; sit in the street ; clapping ; demonstration ; police brutality ; officers attack protesters ; spray them with fire hoses ; firehose ; riot ; police dog ; people dragged by officers ; Chairman’s desk ; gavel ; empty chair ; motorcycle ; men at diner counter ; swastika on helmet ; Hell’s Angels biker gang ; drink coffee ; cafe ; motorcycles drive away down country road ; biker groupies ; c/u eye ; man’s eye ; woman’s eye ; Native American Indians at the white house ; traditional costumes ; headdresses ; race riots ; black and whites fight ; Ku Klux Klan members in full costume ; white hoods ; walk down the street ; KKK ; walkie talkie ; Heil Hilter arm motions ; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ; guards at white house gate ; protesters outside ; picket ; march with signs ; sit in demonstration ; civil rights ; police grab at demonstrators ; signs say “stop brutality in Alabama” ; officer choking a black man
STOCK-0001 Malcolm X Funeral
Call Number i085734
b&w ; 1960s ; race relations ; racism ; civil rights ; African Americans file by the open casket of Malcolm X ; funeral ; wake ; pay respects ; coffin ; body ; c/u on face ; mourners ; exterior convention center or arena ; sign : colored entrance ; view up staircase ; stairs ; cops with barking police dogs ; officers ; c/u on agitated dog ; German Shepherd ; trucks ; cages ; armored vehicle ; sirens ; SWAT car ; guns point out holes in car ; rifles ; barrel of gun moves up and down ; interior SWAT car ; uniformed officer holds gun ; Jackson cops ; team ; aviator sunglasses ; officers on horses ; horseback ; horse backs into camera ; bucking bronco ; truck with loud speakers ; civil rights leaders ; black leaders